Raise the Hammer

Undustrial. I erred in using the word assimilation. As you point out, there's a lot of associated baggage and bias toward the dominant. Melting pot is a better (neutral) concept, no?

Diversity,imo, is an increasingly troublesome concept in the general sense, even though it has advantages from many perspectives such as economic, culinary, technical, etc. The only downside is political but that is a biggie. Mere cultural differences can and do melt away after a few generations but religious divisions usually go the other way. Native culture seems sort of in between which is perhaps a positive indicator for future relations. The logic is simple. Different groups means different rules and different rules means unfairness or discrimination. Plus what happens at the mixed offspring margins. Plus how do the groups negotiate/agree? Is the agreement reliable if it's not democratically arrived at? Can a communal logic survive into an industrial world? Etc.

Its all very well to say they were here first but acceding to every nuance probably leads to a dog's breakfast of conflicting guidelines/ customs/ rules. Which is inherently unfair. So even if the INAC were abolished, we would problably have to reinvent it just to keep track of all the details. So, I tend to cut the INAC a little slack.

The issue of home loans not being available because of land rights issues one hopes would be addressed by the natives themselves, if such a thing is possible, logicwise. Some criticize banks on this, not I because natives have a responsibility to resolve this without blaming the INAC. Are the rules not put in place to protect natives from just the situation that prompted this article? Either one has ownership or one does not. If yes, then one must be free to sell to any buyer? If buyers are restricted to natives only, presumably price suffers. How would you resolve this?

I also look at our land title as a great example of the strength of the western model, at least the English model i'm familiar with and as internationally recognized by Hernando deSota. Which is why i get hot to maintain what we are about against those who want to adopt foreign ways willy nilly, in the name of diversity or demographics. At least that was true until our fancy lawyers, banksters and crony politicians managed to destroy the integrity of the land title system (while we slumbered) without telling us. As you said on the other thread:

We can only choose who's making the rules, and don't have a lick of say about which rules they choose.

Cheers

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Btw, i thought you'd like to know about the format symbol to make a quote box is to put a right arrow ">" at the beginning of the line/ para. Maybe Ryan can post a list of these things below the blog archive.